tower at entrance to Leda's Cave, Quinta da Regaleira
The Quinta da Regaleira is the palace and surrounding four-hectare gardens built by António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro, a Portuguese millionaire, between 1904-10 in Sintra, Portugal.
He employed the Italian architect Luigi Manini to create the neo-Manueline main house and to design the gardens which are filled with curious buildings, follies, grottoes, towers and tunnels - such as the walls and turret seen here, which stand above the entrance to Leda's Cave (a grotto containing a marble sculpture of Leda and the swan).
The design of the garden is said to represent an initiate's metaphysical journey through the cosmos towards enlightenment.
tower at entrance to Leda's Cave, Quinta da Regaleira
The Quinta da Regaleira is the palace and surrounding four-hectare gardens built by António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro, a Portuguese millionaire, between 1904-10 in Sintra, Portugal.
He employed the Italian architect Luigi Manini to create the neo-Manueline main house and to design the gardens which are filled with curious buildings, follies, grottoes, towers and tunnels - such as the walls and turret seen here, which stand above the entrance to Leda's Cave (a grotto containing a marble sculpture of Leda and the swan).
The design of the garden is said to represent an initiate's metaphysical journey through the cosmos towards enlightenment.